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13 Min., Dokumentarfilm , KurzfilmFeeling different—or feeling that she does not belong—is nothing new to Yen Nguyen: be whiter, have more German friends. From her new life in Oslo, 900 kilometres from her family, she journeys back to her roots, confronting questions of self-acceptance, identity and family.
An der Saale hellem Strande
19 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe film deals with the memory of Delfin Guerra and Raúl Garcia Paret, two Cuban contract workers in the GDR who died in Merseburg in 1979. During a visual tour of the city, acoustic fragments from Stasi files, letters and Facebook chats condense into a reflection on forms of remembrance and racist continuities.
Boy
30 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Kurzfilm»BOY« narrates through pictures of urban environments and close observations the lives of a girl which is raised as a boy in Afghanistan and a young afghan singer, who now lives in London but wore boys clothes to be more free in afghan society.
Coming off the Real Time, for a While
62 Min., DokumentarfilmA documentary about Swedish farmer Sven Axel, who never left his village yet travelled the globe in thought. At the margins of the day, he reflects on his work with nature, contemplates the limits of the universe, and quietly nurtures the dream of becoming a filmmaker himself.
Der Morgen im Kiefernwald
27 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmDER MORGEN IM KIEFERNWALD approaches a familiar phenomenon of our modern, ageing society: the loss of sight. Alongside the physical process of blindness, the film subtly evokes the geopolitical transformations that accompanied the end of the Cold War.
Erst Nachts konnten wir traurig sein
8 Min., Dokumentarfilm , KurzfilmIn 1987, many Vietnamese people arrived in Germany as contract workers, hoping to build a new life. Nguyen Thi Le was one of them. On her sixtieth birthday, she looks back on her early years in Germany—a time marked by loneliness, homesickness and hope.
Farah
75 Min., DokumentarfilmFARAH follows an Afghan teenager raised as a boy under the “Bacha Posh” tradition as she searches for her identity in Germany.
Hard Goodbyes: My Father
108 Min., SpielfilmIn 1969 Athens, a 10 year old boy struggles to come to terms with the sudden death of his father.
La Boxe
28 Min., Dokumentarfilm , KurzfilmIn LA BOXE, bodies speak in place of words: a cinematic balancing act between force and grace that makes the quiet poetry of boxing palpable anew—raw, precise and free of narrative intervention.
La Duna
93 Min., DokumentarfilmBeginning with the rumour that Silvio Berlusconi stole a sand dune from Sardinia's southern coast, LA DUNA circles a single question: who owns the land? A collection of strange, fairytale-like, absurd and true stories unfolds around power, property and resistance.
LAKE OF FIRE
11 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe third chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy explores the fear of death, its close association with hell in Christian belief, and the way this worldview further inflames visions of a climate-driven “hell on Earth”.
LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS
13 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmThe first chapter of the LAST THINGS trilogy examines the relationship between religion and speciesism, while asking whether anthropocentric systems of belief have any future.
